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25 min ago | www.enquirerherald.com | lois sprague

Brazil prison guards nab pigeon with cell phone

Prison guards foiled a new attempt to smuggle a cell phone into a Brazilian prison by carrier pigeon - this one wearing a tiny backpack - and said Friday that the practice is becoming almost commonplace.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Brazil,

27 min ago | www.thebeenews.com | lois sprague

Medici lawyer says Kohn didn't get Madoff payments

Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday.

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Related Topix: Bernie Madoff

Thu Jul 02, 2009

www.9and10news.com | lois sprague

Soldier missing...Stocks fall...Computers back up

An American soldier is missing in eastern Afghanistan, and officials say they think he is in the hands of insurgents.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Marine Corps, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US Military Prisons

www.journalgroup.com | lois sprague

Prison closed, but officials await word on property

The Robert Scott Correctional Facility is now empty of prisoners. The prison, on Five Mile and Beck roads in Northville Township, was closed by the State of Michigan last month, the prisoners moved to other locations.

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Related Topix: Robert Scott Correctional Facility, State Prisons, Michigan, Michigan Government

www.usdoj.gov | lois sprague

AZ: Mexican Citizens Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Heroin Trafficking

JUL 02 -- PHOENIX Alfonso Valdez-Cota, 24, and Kaven Alfonso Chavez-Aguirre, 25, both citizens of Mexico, were sentenced on June 29, 2009, by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to five years in federal prison after both defendants pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess With the Intent to Distribute Heroin.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons

scoop.co.nz | lois sprague

Report: CIA Crucified Captive In Abu Ghraib Prison

The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.

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Related Topix: Abu Ghraib, Iraq, World News, Middle East, ACLU

Wed Jul 01, 2009

www.miamiherald.com | lois sprague

Former HealthSouth executive gets prison time

A former HealthSouth Corp. finance chief has been ordered to spend three months in federal prison for his role in the $2.6 billion financial fraud that nearly wrecked the company.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, US News

forums.blueridgenow.com | lois sprague

Tea Party protest comes to town

Folks need to be aware that the 16th Amendment was never ratified, that Rat Philander Knox lied to the Congress and got it passed at the same time the Federal Reserve Act came to be.

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www.9and10news.com | lois sprague

Jackson's will filed...Calls for resignation...Mousavi's message

Michael Jackson's will has been filed in a Los Angeles court. The will, dated July 7, 2002, says Jackson chose not to provide for his former wife Debbie Rowe.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Columbia, SC

Tue Jun 30, 2009

www.rockwallheraldbanner.com | lois sprague

Former pastor sentenced in federal porn case

By Brad Kellar Herald-Banner Staff A former Royse City pastor has been sentenced to prison on federal charges he possessed and trafficked in child pornography on his church's computers.

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Related Topix: Royse City, TX, Computers, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Federal Prisons

jurist.law.pitt.edu | lois sprague

Federal judge dismisses Afghan Bagram detainee habeas petition

Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed Wazir's petition, finding that Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [text, PDF], outlining habeas corpus matters, did not violate the separation of powers principle laid out by the US Supreme Court [official website] in United States v.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

www.wmctv.com | lois sprague

Lawmakers call for inquiry into Ark. prisons

Arkansas lawmakers are calling for a subpoena-powered inquiry in the state prison system, after guards' lapses that allowed two convicted murderers to escape and caused an inmate's near death.

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Related Topix: Arkansas, Arkansas Government, State Prisons

www.ledger-enquirer.com | lois sprague

Woman gets 5 years for hyperbaric chamber scam

A Tucker woman has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison on charges that she used a hyperbaric chamber to make over a million dollars in fake health care claims.

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Related Topix: Federal Prisons

www.fox61.com | lois sprague

AP Source: 10 others will face federal charges by the time Madoff criminal probe is complete

Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Bernie Madoff

Mon Jun 29, 2009

www.oregonlive.com | lois sprague

Court schedules bond hearing for OJ Simpson

A state Supreme Court panel will hear oral arguments on O.J. Simpson's bid to get out of a Nevada prison pending his appeal in an armed hotel room heist, officials said Monday.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV, US Politics, US News

www.smh.com.au | lois sprague

Cat-and-mouse at Wikipedia over New York Times journalist's kidnapping

The New York Times worked with Wikipedia to keep news of the kidnapping of one of its reporters in Afghanistan off the online user-edited encyclopedia, the newspaper reported on Monday.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News

www.wbt.com | lois sprague

News Story: Bernard Madoff gets maximum 150 years in prison

A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff's plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an "extraordinarily evil" fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Federal Prisons

The Modesto Bee

Judge denies Afghan's challenge to detention

A federal judge who issued a groundbreaking order allowing military detainees in Afghanistan to go to U.S. civilian courts to challenge their confinement said Monday that the right doesn't apply to an Afghan prisoner.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, World News, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Telegraph.co.uk

Afghan guards arrested over police chief shooting

Dozens of Afghan guards employed by United States forces have been arrested in connection with the killing a provincial police chief during a shoot out.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai

The Victoria Star

Group wants prison files

An advocacy group is taking the Harper government to court for withholding prison files on Ashley Smith, the teenaged inmate who choked herself to death in her jail cell.

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